Charmed? Check - reruns on TNT mostly, but yep.
King of the Hill? From time to time.
American Dreams? Check - it’s a really good, basic family kind of show.
Third Watch? Religiously. I love anything about first responders, though. Tiramisu, the move away from the FDNY folks is because it’s darned expensive to film fires, and NBC has screwed the show over so badly that they’re operating on a shoestring budget – at least for a show that would like to depict fires and other dramatic stuff that involves first responders. Damn you, NBC! I bet “Vegas” isn’t cutting corners (and cast)!
I watch “Cops” reruns from time to time so that I can rant to Mr. TeaElle about how many of the wretched dangerous criminals depicted on the show are either mentally ill, alcohol/drug addicts or both. (The people who are clearly self-medicating with crack are the saddest, I saw an episode with a prostitute who would do anything for a rock of crack and cried for a half hour.) Then I write a belligerent letter to an elected official which I never send, and then go to bed, because “Cops” reruns are only on in the dead of night here.
How about all the hunting and fishing shows which gobble up time on sports networks? I know they’re on because they are basically commercials for the products and places featured on the shows. They must be incredibly cheap to produce and more profitable than airing informercials.
I actually didn’t think Wings was that bad untill they got rid of Lowell and Antonio…oh crap…its been this long and I still remember the characters names…OUCH
Coach had a few funny Jerry VanDyke moments…
Some shows, I don’t even know how long they’ve been on the air, and I only occasionally hear about them when I’m surfing, or see previews. For example, all those fat-dumb-husband with cute-small-sarcastic-wife with 2.5 kids and pets shows, that are all modern riffs on The Honeymooners. How many of those are on the air now? Like, three full nights-worth on CBS? Or lame sitcoms on UPN. Or lame teen dramas on WB. I have no idea, they all look the same to me.
What about tiresome syndicated shows? For example, I discovered the other day that that sci-fi show Andromeda is still on the air. I thought it was long over. Same with Mutant X. And I have noticed perpetual reruns of the new Outer Limits, thinking it was cancelled years ago. Of course I thought that Xena had been cancelled like two years before it finally went off the air, so that shows how aware I am.
Does anyone besides retired old vets watch that show JAG? And now there’s a spin-off, that looks like it’s stolen the whole concept from CSI, complete with zany-looking/acting forensic scientist. Who watches that?
I’m now starting to question how entire stations stay on the air. AMC has become so inexcusably bad, I wish they would just close up shop. Hang up a sign, saying, Closed Please Visit TCM for you “real” classic movie needs. VH1 should change their name to “The List Channel” since all they do is make shows of lists about celebrities and nostalgia. Last night my friend and I were discussing the Golf Channel. How interesting could it be to watch people play golf? I would think, that if you’re into golf, you’re playing it, not watching it be played.
The only reason I watch Girlfriends occassionally is for 1) William, who cracks me up – 'cuz that’s basically a tall me with a better job and 2) Jill Marie Jones bodacious’ ta-tas and pillow lips. Of course her character’s personality (at least, I pray to GOD that’s just her fictional character’s personality) is so fucking grating I can slice a block of cheddar and make a cheese pizza.
Y’know, I kinda miss Girlfriends. It was the tail end of my late night TV habit for a while, right after a neat cartoon called Mission Hill and a comedy about a band that had been charged with responsibility of helping ghosts pass on. No, seriously. You never got to hear them play either.
Scrubs is about the best comedy we have on at the moment, and it’s just repeats.
Mission Hill was hilarious (and occasionally on Adult Swim on Sundays) and Dead Last (I had to look it up) was about the best show you could have with a band helping ghosts pass on into the next life.
